Skirt-supporter.



No. 634,196. Patented Oct. 3, I899.

a. BLAcKmAN. SKIRT SUPPURTER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

GEORGE L. BLAOKMAN, OF COUDERSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

SKiRT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 634,196, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed November 1, 1898. Serial No. 695,228. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. BLAOKMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coudersport,in the county of Potter and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Supporters and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to garment or skirt supporters; and the object is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective device of this character for supporting the skirt and at the same time holding the shirt-waist down.

To these ends the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the samereference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved skirt-supporter. Fig. 2 is a reverse view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section.

In the drawings, 1 denotes a flexible or ductile sheet-metal strap or plate provided at its outer ends with eyes or loops 2 2.

3 3 denote a series of transverse studhooks, the outer points 4 4 of which all project upward and the inner points 5 5 downward, as shown.

By means of the loops 2 2 the strap or plate may be secured to or form a section of a waist-belt fastened in front with a buckle, and when adjusted to the person over the waist or basque the depending hooks engage the basque or waist and the upwardly-projecting hooks engage and support the skirt, thus taking the weight of the skirt off the back and at the same time preventit sagging at the sides.

In practice the supporter may be made of sheet metal, celluloid, rubber, or any other suitable material and of various lengths, and the hooks may be increased or diminished to correspond to the use to which it is to be put. Instead of forming the loops or eyes 2 2 of wire or the like and attaching them to the ends of the plate the eyes or loops may be made by punching a piece out of the body of the plate.

It will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

1. A skirt-supporter, comprising aflexible plate, and a series of stud-hooks extending transversely through the solid portion of said plate and having their outer points projecting upward, and their inner points projecting downward with relation to the horizontal longitudinal line of said flexible plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

'2. A skirt-supporter, comprising a flexible plate formed with loops at its opposite ends, and a series of stud-hooks extending through said plate and having their outer points projecting upward, and their inner points projecting downward with relation to the horizontal longitudinal line of said flexible plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE L. BLACKMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. O. OLMSTED, B. F. BERFIELD. 

